This dissertation is a case study analysis of the relationship between trade policy and renewable resource utilization in the fisheries industry of Thailand. The main research objective is a determination whether protection ...

This study looks at dynamics in Japan's aggregate demand and supply over the period, 1972-2003, using the New Keynesian/New Neoclassical Synthesis model. This model incorporates sticky prices to the optimization problems ...

The aim of this dissertation is to apply frontier microeconomic theories to provide additional insights into the economic behaviors of fishermen. In particular, we investigate how a fishing vessel's captain or owner makes ...

After thirty years of economic development, the spatial distribution of China's economic activities, such as industrial production and international trade now displays significant spatial concentration. This dissertation ...

This study applies the X-inefficiency theory to analyze different characteristics of the industrial structure between Korea and Taiwan, which have achieved rapid economic growth and export expansion during the past three ...

This dissertation explores the effect of exchange rate changes on the trade balance of Taiwan. It has two objectives. The first is to present a basic conceptual framework of trade adjustment to model Taiwan's trade flows. ...

The objective of this study is to analyze the growth effects of Korea's external borrowing with emphasis on the demand side and the heterogeneous nature of long-term and short-term borrowing. This study put forth the ...

The primary focus of this study is to elucidate the determinants of changes in input ratio, particularly the ratio of domestic intermediate goods to foreign intermediate goods in the Korean machinery industry. It is observed ...

This study examines and hopes to improve upon the explanation of why businesses exit from an industry. This field has thus for been largely neglected. As shown by the literature in Chapter II, very few theoretical studies ...

This study empirically tests a monetarist model of nominal income growth in the United States during the period of fixed (1966.1-1973.2) and flexible (1982.1-1991.4) exchange rates. It argues that domestic money is still ...

This study puts the popular but vague concept of sustainable development on a firmer theoretical foundation. Drawing on neoclassical growth theory and the field of public economics, the study concentrates on two themes ...

This study addresses the issue of differences in resource requirements for adults and children in analyzing poverty and income inequality. Sensitivity of poverty and inequality measures for two different equivalence scales ...